Hinting that it has doubts about that, Verizon said the F.C.C. order "appears to assert broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband wireline and wireless networks and the Internet itself" without "solid statutory underpinnings".
On the eve of opening day, Major League Baseball is asserting broad new powers to control the transmission and use of news photographs and play-by-play coverage of its games.
Pete Mills of the Mortgage Bankers Association likewise stressed that CFPB usually "doesn't have a problem asserting broad jurisdiction," but lamented they won't regulate PACE as a mortgage.
A separate dissent written by Kennedy seemed to echo his own Citizens United opinion by asserting broad First Amendment speech rights while stating that only disclosure rules are necessary to fulfill the public's need to judge whether a candidate is corrupt or not.
Mr. Sadr also tried to assert broader credibility for the anti-Maliki protests by comparing them to the movements that have swept many Arab countries in the past few years, calling for new government leaders and better representation.
In the 1960's and 1970's, federal courts asserted a broad power to hear claims by state prisoners that their trials had violated the Constitution.
Baseball, which had asserted new, broad controls as part of the contract language in its press credential, backed off somewhat by allowing reporters to transmit "historic" information -- say, the progress of a quest for a significant record -- as it happens.
In its decision, the Court of Appeals asserted a broad range of purposes for the Second Amendment, including hunting, self-defense and, most notably, to defend against the "depredations of a tyrannical government".
Congress promptly overturned the veto; but Scalia maintained his friendship with Cheney who continued, as George W. Bush's vice president, to assert similarly broad claims of executive secrecy.
His Justice Department, however, has not yet signaled whether it will continue to assert the broad state secrets claim, alter it or simply ask for more time to consider its options.
